Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stylish daughter-in-law of the family of the founder of famed Scranton, Pa. Daughter-in-law Scranton was elected to the National Committee this spring, after narrowly escaping defeat. Because she is dashingly attractive ("God's greatest gift to mankind," she was once called in a nominating speech), some of her fellow Pennsylvanians feared she might be too dashing. She probably smokes cigarets and such like, they said. But Andrew W. Mellon approved her and Mrs. Scranton was elected to succeed the late John Wanamaker's daughter, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, whose husband is the new Mayor...
...possible he said, he would leave for Brule, Wis. (see p. 7). Commentators commented on the President's timing of the Budget meeting, when he will certainly insert his finger one last, perhaps decisive time into his Party's pie, employing the impressive gesture of a speech about U. S. finances in the most recent year of his Administration. Last week he remained no more and no less a candidate than he had been since his oracular "choice" of last August. Some observers believed that he might utter an Absolute Negative before or at the Budget meeting...
...Charles Gates Dawes, noncandidate, what of him? He is the "dark horse" who looms so big and light that the whole country saw him coming a year ago. He is (to use the cadence if not the context of a nominating speech) a man whom the Administration dislikes, distrusts and fears not a little; a man who, by failing to submerge politely in the Vice-Presidency, made things hard for the President and helped cause the present fissure in his Party. There are four aspects of Charles Gates Dawes: 1) The striking individual who smokes a freak pipe, wears...
Charles Paddock, joint holder of the world's record for the 100-yard dash, recently made a speech over the radio telling of an incident at the Olympic Games in 1924. Said...
...pastor's flock often contains a goodly proportion of black sheep; but on Nebraska's plains, what agile and goatish rams must gambol and run; what wild shy ewes upon its crooked paths! Nonetheless, when the rites of consecration were over, Bishop Rummel made a short, genial speech, then conferred upon his mother, who was still crying while she knelt, his first Bishop's blessing...